Court Orders Concordia University Irvine to Preserve Women’s Teams While Title IX Claim Proceeds

United States District Court Judge Fred W. Slaughter issued a 29-page Order granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction this fall that bars Concordia University Irvine (“CUI”) from “eliminating its women’s swimming & diving team, its women’s tennis team, and all other women’s varsity teams at CUI for the 2025-26 academic year, and for the duration of this case or until further order of this court.” The Order continues: “To the extent that those teams have already